LOCAL GOVERNMENT MINISTER Bob Neill has written to all councils urging greater openness and calling on them to adopt a modern day approach so that credible community or ‘hyper-local’ bloggers and online broadcasters get the same routine access to council meetings as the traditional accredited media have.
See the full press release at the Twitter link below:
Eric Pickles calls on councils to let bloggers into their meetings http://bit.ly/hq1kZi—
(@CommunitiesUK) February 23, 2011
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YESTERDAY 30th June 2010 was the deadline date that DONG Energy set to receive responses to its initial proposals to build a biomass power station at Queen Elizabeth Dock. DONG will review the responses and produce a final consultation report which is expected to be produced in August.
Subject to the success of its consultation DONG had aimed to submit an application to develop the power station in the Autumn. Initially, this application, or Development Consent Order, would have been made to the Infrastructure Planning Commission. DONG has already submitted a scoping report about its proposals to this body (See IPC Projects).
The Infrastructure Planning Commission was the independent body set up in 2008 to decide applications for nationally significant infrastructure projects. However, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg announced on Tuesday that this body will be abolished as part of the coalition Government’s cost-cutting programme.
The Department of Communities and Local Government on its website has stated that until new legislation is in place the Infrastructure Planning Commission will continue in its present role until it is abolished. There is no question of applications having to restart the process and we intend that the statutory timetable for decision-taking will be no longer than the current regime.
Sir Michael Pitt the Chair of the IPC has used the IPC Website to reassure the public that improved opportunities to have your say on proposals will not be diminished in any way by the changeover to a new “fairer, faster decision making” system of regulation.
So it seems that this does not signify a change in the deadline goalposts for DONG Energy or the Power Station proposal – but rather a change of goalies!
THE GOVERNMENT has put in place the legal steps to bring into force on June 15 a statutory duty on councils so they have to respond to petitions. Everyone, no matter where they live, should easily be able to find information about how to petition their local authority and they will know what to expect from their local authority in response [...See HU12.net for full article...]
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